Produce Accessible Content
So, create accessible content and make sure it’s readable to site visitors. Stay up-to-date with the latest updates and recommendations to ensure your business website meets ADA requirements.
Focus on the content structure. Make sure all your content and all website pages have headings. Use an H1 heading for your first title. Add the H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6 headings on the rest of your content and where applicable. Know the hierarchical levels and stick to them.
Use standard HTML tags to ensure your code is readable by assistive readers. Use HTML5 landmarks to designate content areas. Make sure your content is left-aligned to accommodate visually impaired people and dyslexia users.
Choose the right text size and allow users to magnify texts on different devices to suit their needs.
Choose appropriate colors to make it easy for users to understand your site. Test your background and foreground colors to ensure you pick appropriate color schemes. Select the right color for your buttons and corresponding texts. Make sure the button background color contrasts the text color.
Add alt text to non-text content like images, audio, videos, and controls. Make sure all non-text content has alternative text. Use descriptive text to make it easy for users to understand what your image is about. Add captions to all videos and written transcripts on podcasts and other recordings to help people with hearing disabilities understand your content.
Add sign language interpretation for your videos. Find a way to enable users to mute, pause, stop, or hide videos that play automatically on your site.
Make sure all the information on your website and all website features are accessible via the keyboard interface. Make it easy for users to interact with your site using keyboard-only commands. Provide a way for site visitors with motor disabilities to navigate through your content effortlessly without using the mouse.
Make sure users can stop or hide content that moves or blinks via the keyboard interface. Enable visitors to adjust, extend, or turn off time limits on your website, where applicable.
Next, focus on your links. Choose appropriate colors for your text links and their background. Use the above-mentioned tools to test background and foreground colors and select appropriate contrasting colors.
Use descriptive text for your links to clarify the purpose of the link and make it easy for users to understand what they are clicking on.
Add the “skip to content” or “skip navigation” link to help users avoid the navigation menu and navigate directly to your main content.
Communicate errors and make it easy for your website visitors to correct errors or reverse specific actions. Make your forms accessible to everyone and ensure users understand what sort of information they are meant to provide in your forms.
Make sure your site is readable by screen readers. This means your content, image descriptions, and other relevant text should be formatted in a way that makes it easy for screen readers to read them out loud to users. This also applies to your links and buttons. So, ensure screen readers announce your links and buttons as such.
If you have images within your PDF or Word documents on your site, be sure to add alternative text as well.